So-Called Dollars

"EAST TINCUP"
(CIRCA 1960)--UNDATED
GOLDEN, CO

Both medals issued privately; sold at "bank" in East Tincup, replica of mining town of 1880s; opened as tourist attraction 1960 at cost of over $250,000; was located 12 miles west of Denver on route U.S. 40 near Golden, CO, but now defunct. Medals designed by W. M. Webber Jr., operator of enterprise; 1,000 of each struck by Wendell-Northwestern; sold for 50 cents. (See also Part I, Pony Express Centennial--1960, for additional East Tincup medal).

TYPE II

Photos courtesy of Jonathan Brecher

Obv. Wagon train proceeding l.; mountains in background; above East Tincup. Colo. / Re-Live / the Old West / With UsRev. Tin cup in center; on cup Gen. 31: 49; above Mizpah; below cup East Tincup. Colo. (Biblical reference: Mizpah's farewell to his brother, Joseph "The Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.")